Top 200 Joy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Impact Quotes

2. “A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Service Quotes, Compassion Quotes

3. “The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Happy Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

4. “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Smart Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

5. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creativity Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Cute Quotes

6. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Passion Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Purpose Quotes

7. “My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Optimistic Quotes, Wellness Quotes

8. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

9. “Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time, I’m having a ball.”

— Freddie Mercury

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Weekend Quotes

10. “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”

— Audrey Hepburn

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Feel Good Quotes, Cute Quotes

11. “Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Happy Monday Quotes

12. “Don’t feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Cute Quotes, Enjoy Life Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes, Desire Quotes

13. “I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That’s where my heart is, that’s all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Smile Quotes

14. “Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Wellness Quotes

15. “The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Manifestation Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes

16. “Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.”

— David Steindl-Rast

Also featured in: Happy Sunday Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes, Happy Wednesday Quotes, Happy Saturday Quotes

17. “Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Happy Sunday Quotes, Happy Friday Quotes

18. “Wake up and live.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Short Quotes About Life

19. “Do it for joy and you can do it forever.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Stay Positive Quotes

20. “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.”

— Brooke Shields

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Happy Friday Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

21. “One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Positive Life Quotes

22. “Live as though life were created for you.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Purpose Quotes

23. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

24. “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Happy Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes

25. “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

— Linda Grayson

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Clever Quotes

26. “When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes

27. “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter.”

— Richard P. Feynman

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Passion Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Clever Quotes

28. “Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Winning Quotes, Quotes About Children

29. “To a young heart everything is fun.”

— Charles Dickens

Also featured in: Fun Quotes

30. “Better to be the one who smiled than the one who didn't smile back.”

— Mari Gayatri Stein

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Happy Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

31. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Beautiful Quotes

32. “Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Love You Quotes, Creative Quotes, Soul Quotes

33. “I expand in abundance, success and love every day as I inspire those around me to do the same.”

— Gay Hendricks

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Affirmation Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Helping Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

34. “Learn to love your work and you’ll never have to ‘work’ again.”

— S. Truett Cathy

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Satisfaction Quotes

35. “Enjoy everything. Need nothing.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Happy Quotes, Contentment Quotes, Appreciation Quotes

36. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”

— Willie Nelson

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Gratitude Quotes

37. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Soul Quotes

38. “Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Good Morning Quotes

39. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Marthe Troly-Curtin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Silly Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Witty Quotes

40. “I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Happy Quotes, Quotes About Work, Being Happy Quotes

41. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes

42. “Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Happy Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

43. “The goal of spirituality is to bring such happiness, which nobody can take away from you.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes

44. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

Also featured in: Enjoy Life Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes

45. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes

46. “The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Grace Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Virtue Quotes

47. “Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Happy Quotes, Mind Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

48. “Negativity isn’t the way to go, smile more, eat some chocolate.”

— Ed Sheeran

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Smile Quotes

49. “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Silly Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Beauty Quotes

50. “Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of life’s greatest pleasures.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Quotes About Work